Dynamic tolling strategies for managed lanes

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 45-52

  Yin, Yafeng ^a   Lou, Yingyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pricing; Time dependence; Tolls; Traffic congestion

Indexed keywords

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

PRICING; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TIME DEPENDENCE; TOLLS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; MOTORWAY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROAD PRICING; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 58549111615     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2009)135:2(45)     Document Type: Article

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